A little over a month ago, MTIB started working on a ‘Best Ever’ list called Project 220. Why is it called Project 220? Using a 30,000 song sample, we determined the proportion of songs that each letter of the alphabet is… Each letter is allotted a number of spots on our list based on our sample. 4.5% of that sample had the letter ‘A’ as the first item in the song title, subsequently ‘A’ was allotted 9 spots on our list. Get it? No? Oh well.

Somewhere throughout our process we decided doing only one list for the all music ever was nearly impossible. So, we split the list into two. This list includes the songs released prior to 1990.